Dave Mattingly

This month's flooding in Washington state has killed at least one person and damaged thousands of homes.

This is NPR News from Washington.

They're down to the final eight teams in the college football playoffs.

Tenth-ranked Miami will play second-ranked Ohio State on New Year's Eve.

The other three quarterfinal games will be played on New Year's Day.

No.

6 Ole Miss will play third-ranked Georgia.

No.

5 Oregon faces fourth-ranked Texas Tech.

And No.

9 Alabama will take on top-ranked Indiana.

The championship game will be played January 19th in Miami.

Texas A&M is celebrating its first national championship in women's volleyball.

As Greg Eklund reports, the ninth-ranked Aggies upset second-ranked Kentucky.

Wall Street begins the shortened trading week coming off a positive day for stocks.

The Dow added 183 points on Friday to close above the 48,000 mark.

The Nasdaq gained 301 points, or more than 1 percent.

Economists say the rise in unemployment in the U.S.

for November raises the likelihood of the Federal Reserve cutting rates again in January.

I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington.